They
don’t even mention the word poetry and short stories get a breeze by.

But
what’s good about it is the speed pitching which is like speed dating whereby
you get three minutes to pitch your project to a string of 25 agents all lined
up, nearly shoulder to shoulder in a room.

I’m
going to pitch The Hailstorm, the novel I wrote last year.

Fingers
crossed.

…I’ll
be back here Sunday or most likely Monday.Until then, here are some things I like midweek:

To be
alive, to be able to see, to walk,...it's all a miracle." Arthur
Rubinstein

"I
am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do
something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do." Helen
Keller

"You
can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you."
Dale Carnegie

"Anyone
can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine
nature to sympathize with a friend's success." Oscar Wilde

"In
matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a
rock." Thomas Jefferson

"The
way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them."Benjamin Jowett

"Judgement
comes from experience, and great judgement comes from bad experience."Robert Packwood

"I'm
a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of
it." Thomas Jefferson

"We
are fallible. We certainly haven't attained perfection. But we can strive for
it, and the virtue is in the striving." Carlos P. Romulo

"The
best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of
kindness and love." William
Wordsworth

"You
can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything
you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that
desire with singleness of purpose." Abraham Lincoln

"Most
true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind
and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is hard to achieve, especially in these
trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline."
William L. Shirer

"Never
neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be -- usually is, in
fact -- a false alarm that leads to nothing, but it may on the other hand be
the clue provided by fate to lead you to some important advance." Sir Alexander Fleming

"I
don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. I think if
you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done."Mike Ditka

"Adversity
is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest
or not." Henry Fielding

"As
long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated -- he's just
a little behind and isn't through fighting." Darrell Royal

"In
the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress but the day's honest
work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's
good deed."Clare Booth Luce

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